HMS Belfast

On Saturday I visited HMS Belfast, one of the most important warships in World War II but today it is a museum ship. The ship has three heavy guns and each of these needs 27 soldiers to be used. Belfast also contains butcher, a dentist, very small sleepingrooms and two huge enginerooms. Today the ship inculdes an exhibition about World War II, especially D-Day, where HMS Belfast supported the land forces with naval bombardment.

HMS Belfast

Wikipedia HMS Belfast
Fritz Kliemann

Hop on, Hop off ! Sightseeing Tour through London ...

One day we joined a "Hop on, Hop off "Sightseeing Tour through London. At first we were on a typical red double-decker bus and saw a lot of famous attractions like Big Ben, London Bridge, St. Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge. After a little break we went on by boat.

When we started our boat tour it was great to see London from another perspective.

On the river everything seemed so peaceful, there was no bustle going on.

I'm very thankful for this day because I always wanted to do such a tour through London.

During this week I got to know another side of London. When we think about London, we think about Oxford Street or London Bridge but London is much more. In my opinion London is one of the most tolerating cities I've ever been. In London there are so many different types of people but that's no problem because everybody is treating each other respectfully.

Yours,

Melanie

:)

Some impressions from our class and class room. Of course these pictures were taken during the break.
Stefan Gsandtner

Walk in Charles Dickens' London

Hi,

On Wednesday a weird man picked us up after school and so we joined the so called "Charles Dickens Walk". The trip took us about two hours and our funny guide told us different stories about strange happenings like the death of crusaders, doctors or authors. The man was very fascinated by ghosts, mysterious things and fairytales and so all stories he told us were based on these things. In the end of this tour we entered a hotel bar to have a drink. The highlight of this trip was when Georg took his camera and mistakenly deleted all the pictures :-/

All in all it was a very funny tour through London :)

to see a few pictures KLICK HERE

Wolfgang Schmidtgrabmer

Hi,

Talking about how to change a room in London is my topic.
When we arrived on Sunday, we were all exhausted and wanted to relax, but in the evening we changed our room two times because of paint smell and a missing bed.
Our room was quite good looking and so we went to sleep. During the night it was suddenly getting colder and colder and we wondered where the coldness was coming from in the morning. So some of us checked the window and I think Georg K. noticed a round clear spot in the window. Then he touched the spot and reached through.
Because of this fact we had to change our room a third time and we got a bigger, better placed one. All in all it was interesting how often you can change a room in London.
Thanks to Prof. Fischer who supported us a lot.

Fabian Spend.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST

Hi,

I want to give a small report about the breakfast we had in our youth hostel. At first, we went down in the breakfast room, our teacher gave us some kind of a credit note. With this we could order one slice of toast and we got some kind of orange juice or Fanta which was very disgusting. Fortunately it was for free!

So we have a slice of toast and Fanta…did I forget something? .. Oh yes, I forgot to mention the salty butter (which was not really my taste) and some kind of a red, purple and orange pudding…for those who do not know → this should be the jam and marmalade. It looked also very disgusting and so you have to ask someone else if you want to know how the jam tasted.

So some, or nearly all of my roommates (Slupy, Kirschi, Woifi, Georg and Alex) decided not to go down to the breakfast room anymore. We decided to provide for ourselves, so everybody bought his own favourite for breakfast (mostly croissants filled with chocolate). In the end everybody was happy again and nobody complained about the English breakfast anymore.

All in all I have to say that I really liked the English-Breakfast. ^^

In my last sentence I want to thank Prof. Fischer and Prof. Spaller for this great week in London. I think everybody had a great time! What a pity we are not able to do this again together.

Cheers
Stefan Gsandtner

The boat trip

Hi,
I enjoyed the week in London, but there was one day which I will never forget because it was so funny. It was the day in Cambridge when we made a boat trip on the river Cam. Stefan, Wolfgang, the two Georgs and I were in one boat and we could not manage to drive it properly. We drove from one waterside to the other in a kind of zig-zag fashion and because of this we - of course! - crashed into every bridge on the way and one time even into the shrubbery. We also crashed into a boat which was driven by a Chinese couple because they also could not manage to drive the boat. Finally we made it back somehow, but about 15 minutes too late and we had to apologise to the person at the boat rental service. Although everybody in our boat was wet and angry I am still smiling when I remember the boat trip, because everybody thought he could drive the boat better, but none of us was any better at driving the boat than the other.

Thomas Kneidinger